Mays: 94 books

James A. Mays is a true renaissance man: poet, scholar, popular novelist, songwriter, cardiologist, and civil leader. His individual achievements are such that he was the recipient of the George Washington Medal. Other notable recipients of this prestigious award are Barbara Jordan and the late Dr....

An intimate portrait of a tortured player, this memoir culls interviews, letters, and the personal account of baseball legend Willie Mays Aikens. Touted from a young age as the next Reggie Jackson, Aikens' promising career quickly turned disastrous when he fell into drug abuse and was ultimately sentenced...

Coleridge's Dejection Ode completes J.C.C. Mays’ analysis of Coleridge’s poetry, following Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner (Palgrave 2016) and Coleridge’s Experimental Poetics (Palgrave 2013). "Dejection: An Ode" stands alone in Coleridge's oeuvre: written at a time of personal...

The miraculous and romantic story of Shakespeare’s First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong obsession: “Mays’s narrative is so fast-moving, and peppered with such fascinating detail, it almost reads like a thriller” (Entertainment...

Bad things can (and do) happen to good people. Sometimes difficult circumstances are the natural result of our own choices, but other times they stem from someone else's bad behavior. Either way, God is calling Christians to move beyond adversity and live a victorious life that brings glory to His...

The 1962 Angels were a team filled with a wide variety of vivid characters who played far beyond anyone’s expectations and nearly pulled off one of the miracles of modern baseball. They were a second year expansion team full of “rejects and has beens” who had no business chasing the Maris and...

In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy in the back yard. Beset by...

This is the first book-length study to read the "Ancient Mariner" as "poetry," in Coleridge's own particular sense of the word. Coleridge's complicated relationship with the "Mariner" as an experimental poem lies in its origin as a joint project with Wordsworth. J. C....

His second book of poetry, Hunt/Gather confronts the difficulties of growing up rurally poor, imagines a funeral service for the Devil, and features a few poetic forms as well as the expansive free verse Mays is known for. Jacob Mays is a graduate of the Creative Writing: Poetry program of Columbia College Chicago. He lives in Pittsburgh and is a curator at The Night Gallery.

Bill Mays releases a new tale set in his fantastic world of EL. This is the story of a young would-be music student that wants nothing more than to be accepted into The Emerald Spires Academy of the Arts. It is the finest artistic school on the continent with lists of those waiting to enter enrollment...

This is Shirley Mays' third book. She is a North Carolina real estate broker and an environmental consultant. She has a Research Center at the Cotton Exchange in Wilmington, North Carolina. This book is about a conspiracy to defraud the United States taxpayers perpetrated by individuals employed...

Werewolves. Vampires. Demons. The Order of Mankind has trained special agents for centuries in the use of magic, energy manipulation, martial arts and high technology to combat these uncanny foes. At the age of twelve, Jessica works to become one of these agents. It's an impossible task, but...

Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle, Mays examines both the myriad ways in which the...

New Mexico may appear to be the land of a thousand Margaritas, but its distilleries and historic cocktails are complex enough to satisfy even the most discerning palate. Cowboys and banditos alike distilled and drank their way to infamy. Prohibition drinkers masked the questionable spirits with cocktails...